Potato Kolobok

Potato Kolobok is a mid-season high-yielding variety with excellent taste. This property allows you to use root vegetables for cooking not only at home, but also on an industrial scale, which makes them indispensable in the manufacture of chips and dry snacks. Due to the unpretentiousness of the variety, a stable and high-quality crop is obtained by farmers in regions with different climatic conditions, including in the territory of risky farming.

Potato Kolobok is the result of painstaking work of Russian breeders. A special contribution to the breeding of the variety was made by practicing breeders Yashin I.M., Simakov E.A., Grigoriev G.V., Loginov S.I., Shabanov N.E., Shabanov A.E., Voroshilin V.F In 2005, the variety was officially registered and entered the retail trade. A mid-season root crop was obtained by combining KZ 1001 x 733-65 and is recommended for both private cultivation and industrial. The variety belongs to high-yielding crops. From a plot of 1 hectare, an average of 125 to 227 centners of the crop can be harvested. Under favorable climatic conditions, the volume of root crops can reach 260 centners.

Advantages:

• the formation of a large number of fruits;

• high taste indicators;

• high commercial qualities;

• universal purpose;

• high content of proteins and carotene;

• high level of keeping quality and transportability;

• high immune response to the most common diseases and pests;

• unpretentiousness to climatic conditions;

• the possibility of using in dietary food;

• the possibility of harvesting by mechanical means.

Disadvantages:

• exactingness to watering and feeding;

• the complexity of cleaning.

The height of potato bushes Kolobok is average with slightly inclined stems of intermediate type. An intermediate deciduous mass of a pale green shade, medium in size with a slight curvature of the edges. Medium-sized white inflorescences are collected in a large corolla.

The surface of spherical root crops is flat, without bumps and depressions. The rough leathery cover is painted in a yellowish tint. One healthy adult plant is capable of forming 15 to 18 tubers with a weight range of 93 to 118 grams. A small number of ocelli are located in the middle and deep layers of the skin. The fleshy part of the root vegetable has a pale yellow tint. Mass fraction of starchy substances does not exceed 13%.

A mid-season high-yielding crop has high taste and aesthetic characteristics, which makes it possible to use it not only for preparing home cooking dishes, but also for industrial-scale production of snacks, chips, cereals and other semi-finished products. Distinctive features of the variety are the absence of dark spots on the cut, the preservation of shape and color during cooking, the presence of a pleasant and delicate aroma. The digestibility of root vegetables during boiling, stewing and frying is average, they are ideal for making soups, vegetable stews, salads and mashed potatoes. The presence of a large amount of proteins and carotene in the product allows it to be used for dietary nutrition.

Potatoes Kolobok refers to mid-season crops in which the ripening period of tubers from the moment of their planting is 90 days.Throughout the summer, tubers can be dug in, but harvesting must be carried out in early September. The main sign of the ripening of root crops is the drying of the tops.

A high-yielding crop is capable of forming up to 25 tons of root crops on a 1 hectare plot. A distinctive feature of the variety is a stable yield, regardless of climatic conditions and region of growth, as well as in case of non-observance of crop rotation and cultivation on one site for several years.

Despite the unpretentiousness of the Kolobok potato, when growing it, practical breeders recommend following the list of rules that allows you to get healthy plants and a high-quality harvest. Planting of seed should be carried out no earlier than mid-May, during the period when the earthen lump warms up to +10 degrees. 2 weeks before sowing, the seed must be laid out in a warm and well-lit place to get strong shoots. The technique of planting tubers depends only on the personal preferences of farmers, but one should not forget that with a close occurrence of groundwater, the beds must be high. The standard planting pattern is 60 cm x 35 cm. You can improve plant growth by adding a small amount of wood ash, manure and compost to each hole, or 20 grams of a special complex of mineral fertilizers.

The first hilling of young plants must be carried out at the moment when their height reaches 25 cm. The re-formation of an earthen boulder is carried out after 14-20 days. During the period of ovary formation, the area must be watered abundantly, but after the inflorescences fall off, moisture to root crops can harm and provoke the development of late blight. Mulching the entire root zone will help prevent the soil from drying out.

We should not forget about the enrichment of the soil with mineral and organic fertilizers, which will have a positive effect on the development of the bushes. Despite the high level of resistance of the crop to various types of diseases and pests, breeders recommend that preventive treatments of green spaces with chemical and biological preparations be carried out.

Harvesting takes place in early September. A few days before digging, it is necessary to mow the entire ground part of the plant, which will significantly improve the keeping quality of the tubers. Before storing potatoes, it is imperative to sort out and discard all spoiled, rotten and damaged tubers. Before storing the crop, it must be thoroughly dried in a well-ventilated area.

Before deciding on planting Kolobok potatoes, experts recommend carefully studying the degree of resistance of the variety to the following most common diseases:

• viruses - moderate damage;

• viruses Y - high resistance;

• virus X - high resistance;

• L viruses - moderate susceptibility;

• cancer - high resistance;

• golden nematode - high susceptibility;

• late blight of leaves - moderate susceptibility;

• late blight of tubers - high susceptibility;

• common scab - moderate damage;

• black scab - moderate susceptibility;

• Alternaria - medium resistance.

Plants are also susceptible to pests such as aphids, Colorado potato beetle and wireworm.

Despite the presence of a high immune response to most diseases, preventive treatments of green spaces should not be neglected. Ignoring this recommendation can lead to a decrease in the commercial quality of the fruit or the death of the entire crop.